Two photographs of Queen Street School Choir, Thornaby. December 1964. Can anyone put names to faces?
Photographs and details courtesy of Rona Bromley.
Queen Street School Choir, 1964
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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Old Billingham Station, June 1967
This photograph was taken from the Davis Bridge and shows a Q6 loco number 63387 pulling a freight train through the station. This is a good aerial shot showing both the station layout and the sidings owned by the London Brick Company.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Hardy and Martin Birtle.
The Turner Family of Stockton
The people in these two photographs are members of the Turner family hailing from Stockton, in particular Wyndham Street. Is anyone able to verify this please?
Photographs and details courtesy of 
Dorothy Young.
Demolition of the chimney stack, SS&C Company
Demolition of the chimney stack at the Stockton Stone and Concrete Company.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Wilson.
The Stockton Stone and Concrete Company
The Stockton Stone and Concrete Company ran from 1899 – 1967 (sold to Marshalls). Bell & Brass Foundry were earlier occupants of the premises (Norton Iron Works?).
I have documents saying that the Tees Bridge Iron Works, was sold together with the Norton Stone and Concrete Company Ltd by G.B Nancarrow on the 11th March 
1905 to the Stockton Stone and Concrete Company Ltd. My grandfather, John Lawson Wilson was then secretary. My father, Eric Wilson was Managing Director up until 1967. We used to live at ‘Oak Lea’, 23 Darlington Lane, Norton-on-tees.
Photographs and details courtesy of John Wilson.
Stockton High Street seen from the Town Hall
In his youth my brother John worked for the council and somehow managed to get up to the Town Hall clock when it was being cleaned and/or refurbished and took these photographs. The gentlemen at the clock face are unknown to me except for bottom right, Jack Taylor 
the foreman. Does anyone recognise the others?
The buses seem to be in two different liveries which would suggest it was around the time we became Teesside.
Photographs and details courtesy of 
Mike Hardy.
Royal Mail, September 1985
Employees of Royal Mail celebrate the Arthurian Legend Commemorative stamps released September 1985 which coincided with the 250th anniversary of Stockton’s Town Hall (1735 – 1985)
Photographs courtesy of Deb Branson.
Harkers Engineering
The chap seen on the front cover of this Harkers Engineering brochure is Eddie West.
Details courtesy of Mike Bellerby, image courtesy of Eddie Lattimer.
Market Day, Stockton
A photograph taken 20th July 1957 of Stockton High Street on Market Day.
Photograph and details courtesy of Derek Smith.
Stockton Cycling Club Outing
This photograph was taken just before WW1 and shows the Stockton Wheelers Cycling Club and their outing to the annual North Eastern Cycling Meet in Barnard Castle.
They are standing outside Vasey’s Temperance Hotel. The people in the photo are all from Portrack. I can identify only two people – my Grandad Herbert Castelow (sitting down on the left with his hands across his knees) and my Great Grandad John Castelow (standing in the centre with the stripy jacket). If any one can identify the remaining people that would be great.
Photograph and details courtesy of Christine Nicholds.
Closure of Tilery Road Sub-Post Office, 1968
From 1946 my grandfather was sub-postmaster at the post office on the corner of Newton Street and Tilery Road. He worked there for 22 years until he retired on his 65th birthday which coincided with the closure of the post office. The story was featured in the Evening Gazette under the heading “The Last Post for Bill” although he was actually named William Henry Cartwright, but known as Harry.
My Dad, also William Henry worked in the shop, along with my Gran, Sadie (Sarah) Cartwright nee McNaughton. William Henry Jnr. married my Mother Edith Mary Hughes, who lived in Headlam Street, Tilery.
Photographs and details courtesy of Ian Cartwright.
Pole Fishing on the Tees
An overcast day in Stockton last week didn’t deter these men from a spot of pole fishing, September 2014.
Staff from Queen Street School c1966
Teaching staff from Queen Street School with my father Brian Moores, Thornaby c1966.
Photograph and details courtesy of Rona Bromley.
HMS Kellington, 2008
Two photographs showing the HMS Kellington at Stockton quayside in 2008.
Photographs and details courtesy of Tom McGowan.
Victoria Football Ground
A photograph of what we believe to be Victoria Ground, Stockton. Does anyone agree?